Sometimes, fandom is a disappointment
I probably shouldn't have gotten involved with the chinese PoT fandom, really...
The amount of total disregard for netiquette and basic copyright ideas are just... amazing. In the worst way possible.
Okay, icons and banners made from doujin pics, fine. I can buy that, somewhat. I did it, and although it makes my conscience glare at me, I'm not going to froth at the mouth and go kill myself (or take it down, I like the edit job I slaved over...)
Put up a pic temporarily on the front page because it fits in with the current theme/fanfic..... kinda dodgy, but it'll go down, I can ignore.
Collecting doujin pics (some hit pics dedicated to other people) and putting them in your web album for the whole world to see?
No go. Just...NO.
Even people who draw fanart themselves, while putting up "please don't take without permission" in big letters for their own work, does that to Japanese fanartists.
They say they got it from other web albums, but why does the idea of "if it's not yours (or official art), DON'T PUT IT UP!" not come across to them?
I'm willing to bet all my money that if they found someone had taken their own work and plastered it in an album somewhere they'll form an angry mob with all their friends and storm said someone's page/message board/whatever.
I've had people ask me politely if they can use some of my pics on their page, I refused, and they obeyed. This is GOOD. This is CURTESY.
......so why is this curtesy not shown to Japanese fanartists??
Not to mention the character butchering in a lot of fics... I mean, Tezuka, a rapist?? Even for a PWP that's just WRONG.
I've been a sort of active part of the chinese zukafuji fandom since last October, and I now know probably 3 or 4 people who at least pays some attention to copyright things... they still put up japanese fanart sometimes, but only temporary in celebration to say, Fuji's b'day or something. Most of the people I see, especially in the newly-opened forum, are the total disregard type.
The worst thing? It doesn't seem like they'll change.
Depressing and embarrassing, really, to cally myself Chinese and part of the fandom when it's like this.
The amount of total disregard for netiquette and basic copyright ideas are just... amazing. In the worst way possible.
Okay, icons and banners made from doujin pics, fine. I can buy that, somewhat. I did it, and although it makes my conscience glare at me, I'm not going to froth at the mouth and go kill myself (or take it down, I like the edit job I slaved over...)
Put up a pic temporarily on the front page because it fits in with the current theme/fanfic..... kinda dodgy, but it'll go down, I can ignore.
Collecting doujin pics (some hit pics dedicated to other people) and putting them in your web album for the whole world to see?
No go. Just...NO.
Even people who draw fanart themselves, while putting up "please don't take without permission" in big letters for their own work, does that to Japanese fanartists.
They say they got it from other web albums, but why does the idea of "if it's not yours (or official art), DON'T PUT IT UP!" not come across to them?
I'm willing to bet all my money that if they found someone had taken their own work and plastered it in an album somewhere they'll form an angry mob with all their friends and storm said someone's page/message board/whatever.
I've had people ask me politely if they can use some of my pics on their page, I refused, and they obeyed. This is GOOD. This is CURTESY.
......so why is this curtesy not shown to Japanese fanartists??
Not to mention the character butchering in a lot of fics... I mean, Tezuka, a rapist?? Even for a PWP that's just WRONG.
I've been a sort of active part of the chinese zukafuji fandom since last October, and I now know probably 3 or 4 people who at least pays some attention to copyright things... they still put up japanese fanart sometimes, but only temporary in celebration to say, Fuji's b'day or something. Most of the people I see, especially in the newly-opened forum, are the total disregard type.
The worst thing? It doesn't seem like they'll change.
Depressing and embarrassing, really, to cally myself Chinese and part of the fandom when it's like this.